%0 Journal Article
%T Virtual Factory as a Method of Foundry Design and Production Management
%A A. Stawowy
%A R. Wrona
%A M. Brzezi¨½ski
%A E. Zi¨®£¿kowski
%J Archives of Foundry Engineering
%D 2013
%I De Gruyter Open
%X The paper outlines the methodology of virtual design of a foundry plant as a system. The most important stage in the procedure involvesthe development of a model defined as a set of data about the system. Model development involves two stages: defining the model¡¯sarchitecture and specifying the model data in the form of parameters and input-output relationships. The structure is understood asconfiguration of machines and transport units, representing the sub-systems and system components. As the main purpose of thesimulation procedure is to find the characteristics of the system¡¯s behaviour, the merits of the iterative method involving analysis,synthesis and evaluation of results are fully explored.
%K Application of information technology to the foundry industry
%K Automation and Robotics in Foundry
%K Virtual Factory Design
%U http://www.afe.polsl.pl/index.php/pl/3684/virtual-factory-as-a-method-of-foundry-design-and-production-management.pdf